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RESOLVING THE HD 100546 PROTOPLANETARY SYSTEM WITH THE GEMINI PLANET IMAGER: EVIDENCE FOR MULTIPLE FORMING, ACCRETING PLANETS

  • Authors: Thayne Currie, Ryan Cloutier, Sean Brittain, Carol Grady, Adam Burrows, Takayuki Muto, Scott J. Kenyon, and Marc J. Kuchner

2015 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 814 L27.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

PSF-subtracted, wavelength-collapsed image of HD 100546 from IFS data, showing HD 100546 b (top left) and a second point-source-like feature that may be a bright disk rim or a candidate planet “HD 100546 c” (top right; image stretch multiplied by 10). HD 100546 b and “c” are about 5.5% and 9.4% as bright as the rms of the speckle halo+disk in the raw data, about a factor of 2–3 brighter relative to the halo noise than HR 8799 bcde in H-band extreme-AO data from Project 1640 (Oppenheimer et al. 2013). (bottom left) S/N map for the IFS image and (bottom right) the positions of the (candidate) protoplanets relative to disk material in a box-car smoothed (5 × 5 pixel) image.

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